SAATBB A Cappella.

Spoken, Beauty, Singing draws its power from repetition, creating a dreamy landscape of peace, beauty, and nature.

7:30.

SATB and string quartet.

Exuding tranquility and warmth, this original setting of two contemporary poems brings love and spring to your chorus. Begins and ends with meditative choral lines over lovely and steady chord progressions in the strings.

5 min.

SATB (divisi) and piano.

A Traversing is a lush setting of the contemporary Pattiann Rogers poem about nature revealing and yielding to clarity.

6:30.

SATB and strings.

Return to the 50s with this breezy tune. Wollongong features a walking bass line, jazzy and fun melodies, and a bit of swagger.

5 min.

SATB, piano, electric bass, percussion, horns.

Day of the Dead is a festive piece for the holiday. Starts slow with some jazz rumbling, then a suave section, and a fun Latin beat ending.

4:15.

SATB a cappella with solo.

Two short jazz ditties about an unfavored insect. Philosophical, spirited, and light-hearted.

3:30.

Two-part treble chorus, piano and percussion.

It’s Inside of Me! is an infectious little ditty for middle school chorus using a child-written poem. Uses a call-and-response between the voice parts. Simple and fun.

2:45.

SATB and chamber orchestra.

Premiering Spring 2025.

Exuding spirit and warmth, Earth Teach Me is a joyous setting of the lovely Native American prayer.

6 min.

Two-Part or Three-Part Chorus and piano.

In July 2018, scientists gathered in Chicago for a weekend of knowledge sharing and collaboration focused on the call to stand up for science. Pledge draws text from a community poem written and delivered at this meeting.

4 min.

SATB, Piano, Electric Bass and Drums

Original gospel-style inspirational work, encouraging young people to stand up and be of service. Marvelous text by Rita-Garcia Williams.

6:30.

SSAA, Violin and Percussion

Human connection - the bond that unites us all.

There comes a point when people discover that they are not alone. What happens next?

5:45.

SATB, piano and violin.

Fire and Sleet rues a wasted life. Evoking terror, angst, and regret. Like the choral standards Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Wayfaring Stranger.

4 min.

SATB and Chamber Orchestra.

This piece in four movements imagines a place where we could be fire, where we could be motion, or the design of an orbit against a starry background. The contemporary poem by Pattiann Rogers pulls back layers of being down to their very essence.

9:30.

SATB and piano.

Return to the Paleocene relays the bewilderment, wonder, and terror of 12-year-old Mary Anning’s discovery of dinosaurs in 1811, with contemporary text from environmentalist Ben Hale.

5:30.

SATB and Orchestra.

A driving and pulsing piece about the coming of death.

5 min.

SATB and Chamber Orchestra.

A remarkable journey through history uncovering stories of people and materials.

15 min.

SATB and Orchestra.

An original and powerful evocation using a single letter of the alphabet to name the wonders that are at risk of being no more.

13:30.

SSAA, piano, flute, and bassoon.

Tree-Burial is about a Native American ritual of burying a child high among the trees rather than in the ground. This ritual and the words spoken by the mother are a powerful balm in the face of grief and sadness.

6 min.

SATB, piano and cello.

A lovely and sad work on the vastness of nature.

5:30.

SSAA and string quartet.

Beginning with a meditative chant on darkness and light, Sunset on the Spire brightens to an affirmation of a life worth living.

6 min.

TTBB, piano and violin.

Today’s Thick Frost imparts a feeling of decay mixed with beauty, using contemporary text by an English molecatcher who draws on the strength of his waning years.

5 min.

SATB and Piano.

An exploration of one aspect of the immigrant experience: the pain not just of leaving behind one’s homeland, but the blame faced by later generations for leaving that idyll.

4:20.

SATB, Treble Choir, piano and violin.

A balm and response to the epidemic of gun violence in the United States: I was born of bullets, but now I sing of a world where bullets melt into bells. This stark and beautiful setting flows into a moving call for unity and action.